BANGOR, Maine — A local transient was arrested at the American Folk Festival after he got drunk and was asked to leave but returned, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said Monday.
Peter Wing, 50, was arrested for criminal trespassing and taken to the Penobscot County Jail.
“He was intoxicated and bothering patrons” on the waterfront, Edwards said. “They kicked him out and told him not to return, but later found him on a bench behind the Sea Dog.”
Wing was released at court on Monday.
He was arrested at Gomez Park in July 2011 after he was caught drinking in public and allegedly refused to put down his beverage when asked to do so by a police officer, according to Bangor Daily News archives.
That same month, he was convicted of criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct, which earned him 24 hours behind bars, and disorderly conduct and drinking in public, which carried a penalty of 15 days in jail for each, the BDN listings state. (Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)
What would the Bangor PD have done if this “drunk transient” had wandered out into traffic and was injured or killed-or caused a fatal car accident. Even Andy of Mayberry RFD-the nicest policemen that ever lived -locked up the local drunk until morning.
You can’t hold HUMANS without a charge..
Public drunkenness?
just imagine if he had fireworks too!!!
or a bazooka
Of course who can forget old Otis the town drunk. Probably sleeping off a long bender today.
I would have used his name if I could have remembered. With a camp on Beach Hill Pond in Otis you’d think that I could have retrieved that one. Thanks
Read again .
Schwinggg!!!
Bangor…”Transient Mecca”
For the size of Bangor we have a way too large of a population of “transients”.
Friday night or saturday Morning around 1 am I saw a couple blue lights and decided to follow and see what was happening.. over by diamonds I guess there is a new bar that opened up cloose to Franklin street there. and there was like 8 police cars and 100 or so people. I haven’t seen that reported on the news.. after all we would like to cheer on Bangors newest bars.
Franklin Steet has become a great place for “local transients” to hang out. Bars, benches to sleep on, oh yeah, and a place that calls itself a mental health/substance abuse agency, but allows the ” clients” to arrive intoxicated and hang out all day, liter the sidwalks with smoking and drug dealing. I won’t even walk down that street during the day because I have to pass that place. My friend works at Bangor Savings Office on Franklin, she gets asked for money everyday on her way into work and on her way out.
I was at the festival with a group of friends, sitting by the kid’s area getting a friend’s face painted and this guy comes over to us and mumbles some incoherent nothingness and started following us. We just kept moving and he grabbed a recycling bin and started shaking it. Good times.
If it wasn’t for all thehomeless in the city,
BDN would be out of business.
A transient’s stop, or, pause, should be just a fleeting moment in his or her life.
Why not make them adhere to their categorization?
” Operation Fleeting Chance.”
Each week, clean out the County Jail and sweep up the overflow on Franklin, Stillwater, Center, and Harlow.
A bus -“Community Connector” – with armed guards would board the “Transients.” One fleeting glance at the City of Bangor, they’re then whisked off to Kittery.
Transient’s excuses of no money, no job, poor economy, and their rights to ingest drugs, get drunk, scare people, be jail-fed, and become a detestable nuisance, are waived by the city.
Since a Transient is supposed to make a fleeting visit, we are within our rights to respect those wishes of the transient and give him a free ride out of state.
Returnees guaranteed 30-days of butt and litter picking in Downtown Bangor and along the Waterfront under armed guard. Plus, a return ticket to Kittery.